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Hollman's death has contributed to opposition to the Atlanta Public Safety Training center (also known as "cop city") currently under construction in the city. [3] Atlanta police operating procedures have also been changed so that officers should write "refused to sign" on citations if people refuse to sign them instead of attempting arrest. [3]
The city is expected to pay one-third of the cost, with the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) paying the rest. [3] Plans for the 85-acre (34 ha) facility were announced in 2017 [citation needed]. According to the APF, the project provides "the necessary facilities required to effectively train 21st-century law enforcement agencies responsible for ...
The facility, derisively dubbed “Cop City” by opponents of the project, is set to be built on 85 acres of Atlanta’s historic South River Forest, an area deeply entwined with the plight of ...
An autopsy has found that the Aug. 10 death of a 62-year-old church deacon who was electrically shocked by an Atlanta police officer was a homicide, although the medical examiner found that heart ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged, a prosecutor ...
On June 13, Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields resigned; Mayor Bottoms said Shields had resigned in the hope that "the city may move forward with urgency and [rebuild] the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities." [69] [70] [71] On June 15, Mayor Bottoms ordered the Atlanta Police Department to overhaul its use-of-force ...
Michael Boykin, 28, was identified as a hate crime suspect, the Atlanta Police Department wrote in an X post shared on Friday. At the time of Boykin's arrest, police said "he was believed to be ...
The Georgia constitution allows residents to force a referendum on decisions by local governments if they can get 15% of registered voters to sign petition; in Atlanta, 60,000 [21] to 70,000 [32] signatures would be required. The referendum against Cop City would cancel the city’s lease to the Atlanta Police Foundation, which the city said ...